All articles by Jonathan Romney – Page 9
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Reviews‘The Plough’: Berlin Review
The Garrel clan turn out in force for father Philippe’s domestic saga, set in a family of puppeteers
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Reviews‘The Burdened’: Berlin Review
A struggling couple in Aden face up to hard choices in Amr Gamal’s abortion drama
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Reviews‘Totem’: Berlin Review
Lila Avilés follows ‘The Chambermaid’ with this elegant drama of a family in crisis
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Reviews‘Disco Boy’: Berlin Review
Franz Rogowski is a magnetic presence in Giacomo Abbruzzese’s drama about the French Foreign Legion
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Reviews‘The Adults’: Berlin Review
Michael Cera is one of three dysfunctional siblings in Dustin Guy Defa’s comedy drama
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Reviews‘Superpower’: Berlin Review
’Frenetically-paced, awkwardly narcissistic’: Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman present their account of the war in Ukraine
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Reviews‘Perpetrator’: Berlin Review
Jennifer Reeder’s anarchic genre-blender stars Alicia Silverstone and emerging star Kiah McKirnan
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Reviews‘Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything’: Berlin Review
A young woman embarks on a taboo relationship just after the fall of the Berlin Wall in Emily Atef’s elegant, erotic drama
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Reviews‘Passages’: Sundance Review
Adèle Exarchopoulos, Franz Rogowski and Ben Whishaw make Ira Sachs’ latest a ‘sexy proposition in every respect’
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Reviews‘Girl’: Sundance Review
Adura Onashile’s debut is set in Glasgow where a migrant and her daughter try to make their home
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2022: Jonathan Romney
A longtime contributor to Screen, Jonathan Romney also writes for Film Comment, Sight & Sound and The Observer, and teaches at the UK’s National Film and Television School.
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Reviews‘Darkling’: Review
A Serbian family struggle to survive in 1990s Kosovo in Serbia’s Oscar contender
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Reviews‘No End’: Busan Review
Jafar Panahi collaborator Nader Saeivar’s second feature explores the manipulative nature of Iran’s police state
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Reviews‘Walk Up’: San Sebastian Review
A middle-aged film director attempts to find a place to truly belong in the latest work from Hong Sang-soo
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Reviews‘Great Yarmouth - Provisional Figures’: San Sebastian Review
Portuguese director Marco Martins presents a damning look at immigrant life in modern Britain
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Reviews‘A Hundred Flowers’: San Sebastian Review
Genki Kawamura makes his debut with an adaptation of his own novel about dementia
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Reviews‘Winter Boy’: San Sebastian Review
Christophe Honoré’s personal coming-of-age story is a showcase for a tremendous debut from young actor Paul Kircher
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Reviews‘Il Boemo’: San Sebastian Review
The Czech Republic bids for Oscar glory with Petr Vaclav’s sumptuous period drama/musical
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Reviews‘Runner’: San Sebastian Review
The bleak midwest forms the setting for Marian Mathias’s ’oppressively lugubrious’ debut
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Reviews‘The Substitute’: San Sebastian Review
A supply teacher struggles to stay on top of his classrom in a tough Buenos Aires barrio in Diego Lerman’s drama